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'Grow a FLIPPING BACKBONE' - Tim Farron explodes at pro-EU MPs

ARCH-REMAINER Farron has demanded pro-EU MPs quit their parties and form an alliance against Brexit. Former Liberal Democrat leader Tim Farron has told pro-EU Tory and Labour MPs to "grow a backbone" and form a new party.

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"People shouldn't fall into the mistake of thinking the SDP was a failure. It really wasn’t.

"The day before [former Argentine president Leopoldo] Galtieri invaded the Falklands, they (SDP) were on 51% in the polls and the [Liberal/SDP] alliance got 26% of the vote in '83 - very, very close to having made it."

Mr Farron quit as leader of the Lib Dems following the 2017 general election after the party finished third, far behind the Conservatives and Labour.

Farron wants a new pro-EU party set up (Image: GETTY)

The party was running on a pro-EU platform while Theresa May and Jeremy Corbyn promised to honour the Brexit vote.

Mr Farron also told Politico: "You see with great frustration - and I'm sure Vince [Cable, the current leader] feels the same - the colossal opportunity in what I will glibly call the centre of British politics, and the desperate need for us.

"I obviously want the Liberal Democrats to recover, become the next government of the country and solve all the problems."